Latest Fact-Checks By Jon Greenberg

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Jon Voight
stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview with "Cigar Aficianado":

"The word progressive ... was created as a substitute for ‘communist’."

False

By Jon Greenberg • October 22, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "New Day":

Says CIA Director George Tenet told the Bush administration that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack "was coming. So they did have advanced notice."

False

By Jon Greenberg • October 21, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic presidential debate:

Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic debate:

"Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015

Steve Deace
stated on October 8, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "News Nation":

Pollsters say "don't actually believe our own data" and Gallup stopped primary polling "because they don't trust their methodology."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • October 12, 2015

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 11, 2015 in comments on "State of the Union":

"When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2015

Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 3, 2015 in a New York Times op-ed:

"More preschoolers are shot dead each year than police officers are in the line of duty."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • October 6, 2015

Joe Scarborough
stated on October 2, 2015 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

About "3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2015

Viral image
stated on June 20, 2015 in a post shared on Facebook:

Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2015

Chuck Todd
stated on September 27, 2015 in a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says "Bernie Sanders was there when it came to (same-sex) marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasn't popular."

True

By Jon Greenberg • September 29, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 22, 2015 in a tweet:

"The birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008. She was all in!"

False

By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2015

Matthew Dowd
stated on September 20, 2015 in a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":

Says Pope Francis "took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • September 22, 2015

Karl Rove
stated on September 20, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

At this point in 2012, "Rick Perry was ahead at 29.9 percent, and we had seven more leads before it finally settled on Mitt Romney."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • September 20, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN Republican debate:

The government "made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard" for religious reasons.

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN Republican debate:

"The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago."

True

By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN debate:

Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 billion budget deficit.

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015

Hugh Hewitt
stated on September 13, 2015 in a panel discussion on CNN's "State of the Union":

Says history suggests sports will "quickly subsume a lot of the attention span of the country" in the presidential primary.

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • September 16, 2015

Viral image
stated on September 7, 2015 in a Facebook post:

Says the case of a Texas judge who refused to perform heterosexual weddings exposes a double standard in the case against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.

False

By Jon Greenberg • September 14, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on September 13, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"I'm the only governor in America ... who signed a law that says there needs to be an independent investigation any time there's a death of someone in police custody."

True

By Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2015

Juan Williams
stated on September 9, 2015 in a discussion on Fox News' "The Five":

When it comes to classified information at the State Department, Hillary Clinton’s "the decider."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • September 11, 2015

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